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Football Thread 2011/12 |OT8| Made it to the Championship play-offs
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He's Senegalese and came from Germany...
A match made in France!
The Friendly Monster
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More impressively he's doing that in real life too.
The Friendly Monster
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He is from Senegal.Yeah he does. If a player doesn't speak English, they likely speak French
sazabirules
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My mistake. He has played more years in France than Germany.
Maklershed
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Pape Cisse - he scores when he wants
So ? Like many of the other African countries. Its either English or French and then the local dialect. I speak another language along with English.
EDIT: Also all African countries that were colonized picked up their colonial 'masters' language when they left.
Willkiller
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I think Ba's probably a bit jealous of Cisse anyway, talk about stealing someones thunder haha!
Willkiller
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"Tell me ma I won't be home for tea, we're going to Italy"
Hahaha!
Hahaha!
Meus Renaissance
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sazabirules
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I'm playing as Swansea in FM12 right now and Britton is my best player.
I love you Meus, but that's meaningless. Especially if you count defenders.
edit:..and Nasri.
Those statistics are awesome for Britton though he passes a lot less than Xavi. Anyway, those are great for him.
May be true, but he still deserves some credit. He's not the only one to play safe and short passes, but is the only one above Xavi.
Meus Renaissance
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erm, Barca?
Yeah, for sure. He is a very tidy and probably Swanseas key player. He keeps them ticking over.
Meus Renaissance
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Lol woops. Will update
Willkiller
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They're purple.
the differences are so small that it's sort of pointless to have that much vertical space on the graph.
Curious to see where United are on that graph. Dortmund and Newcelona as well.
Meus Renaissance
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The Friendly Monster
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Not at all, Britton has around 25% fewer misses than Busquets as a percentage.
using percentages at that scale is misleading when talking about this kind of stat. you could say that someone with a 99% pass completion rate has "100% fewer misses as a percentage" than someone with a 98% completion rate when the actual difference is trivial. A 1.5% difference in passing accuracy is not very significant.
The Friendly Monster
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It's not at all trivial, there is a massive difference between 98% and 99%. It's a factor of two in how many missed passes.
Vivalaraza
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Opta tweeted after Mondays game that before Scholes came back we had the 6th highest passing % in the league at about 80%.
Since Scholes has returned United have the top passing % in the league at about 87%.
Meus Renaissance
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Swanselona have 80% possession this first half.
It sucks for them a few seconds of brilliance from Newcastle have made that irrelevant
It sucks for them a few seconds of brilliance from Newcastle have made that irrelevant
Willkiller
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Crazy possession stats! Not that I care, great half-time result. Hope we can hold out, can't see us not conceding though.
Yep, it's obvious that these are mostly Championship players. They don't have the confidence/skill to play any kind of risky forward pass, nor do they want to turn with the ball. It's all backwards or sideways and it gives the opposition all the time in the world to get into position. That's OK if it's 0-0, but at 0-1 it's utterly useless. Only Sigurdsson is showing any kind of attacking quality.
but in practical terms the difference is not very important. this is a pretty common error, attributing excessive significance to percentage changes in very small quantities. in terms of the actual number of missed passes, there's no difference between 98% and 99% and, say, 57% and 58%, yet they way you are looking at it there's a huge difference between the former and a trivial one for the latter.
Meus Renaissance
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That reminds me..what happened to Lee Trundle? He scored a ridiculously silky goal the other week
The brilliant thing about that game and the attacking play we saw from United is they've not been able to replicate it all season.
It's like when they scored and played like that it rubbed off on City. City played like that until 1-6 day and since then City lost it!
Excuse me Yurt, City is a massive club.
/parody.
Awesome Animals
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The Friendly Monster
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In terms of how impressive the statistic is rather than the value to the team then certainly 98 to 99 is a far bigger difference than 57 to 58.
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